Carnival of fury
Subtitle: Robert Charles and the New Orleans race riot of 1900
By: William Ivy Hair.
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 1976
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
Subjects: Charles, Robert, -- 1865 or 6-1900.; Riots -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.; New Orleans (La.) -- History.
Description: "This biography of Charles follows him from childhood in a Mississippi sharecropper?s cabin to his violent death on New Orleans? Saratoga Street. With the few clues available, William Ivy Hair has pieced together the story of a man whose life spanned the thirty-four years from emancipation to 1900?a man who tried to achieve dignity and self-respect in a time when people of his race could not exhibit such characteristics without fear of reprisal" -- publisher website (October 2006).
Notes: Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [201]-209.